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Panag(h)ia Gr. Ch.|pænaɪˈjiːə| Also 9–Panhagia. [a. Gr. παναγία, fem. of πανάγιος all-holy.] A title of the Virgin Mary in the Orthodox Eastern Church; the All-holy. Also, an image or representation of the Virgin Mary.
[1686B. Randolph Pres. St. Morea 13 Many People came from the City of Zant to pay their devotions to the Panaija there.] 1775R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 59 The picture of the Panagia, or Virgin Mary, in Mosaic, on the cieling of the recess. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. I. ii. iii. 314 The Parthenon which had been converted into a church of the Panhagia, or Blessed Virgin. 1903G. F. Abbott in Daily Chron. 16 June 3/1 A small table..placed under the lamp which burns in front of the icon of the Panhagia. 1910New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. VIII. 327/1 Panagia (‘All Holy’), the usual (though not official) title of the virgin in the Greek Church. 1911[see Hodegetria]. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Mar. 231/2 Devotees who implore the Panagia of Kykko for rain or the Panagia of Tenos for health. 1958L. Durrell Balthazar vi. 135 ‘I ask you to sleep with him as I would ask the Panaghia to come down and bless him while he sleeps—like in the old ikons.’ How..Greek! 1961D. Attwater Christian Churches of East I. 223 Panagia.., ‘all-holy’, used for the Mother of God as we say ‘our Lady’. Also another name for the enkolpion. |